Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan’s young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

Mahlah the Scholar, as she is known by the other dragons, was one of the hatchlings raised on Zechariah's stories, back when the island was so much smaller. A hunger for knowledge was evoked within her, and she dedicated her life to the collection and sharing of information.

Although her pursuits have mostly been accepted gladly by the Clementine dragons, some of them reacted to her research on family trees with anger. Although she herself is not prejudiced in any fashion, certain dragons were outraged at the evidence against their racial or genetic purity.

During the time in which Mahlah taught young dragons to read and write, one of the hatchlings, Eli, seemed to admire her more than the others, and the two became good friends. It is unclear whether Mahlah knows of Eli's secret feelings for her, but the two have become increasingly close since the beginning of the conflict with Deirwater.